The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-10-27
"The Bloody Shirt F"
WHY The DEMOCRATIC PARTY Oh.
JECTs To WAVING IT!

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was not thought strange that they
should object to a recital of an exper-
ience in which the Democratic party
was soundly threshed for it's treason
and outlawry, but the amazing fea-
ture was, and is, that they cannot see
that they give themselves away"
every time they sneer at the Bloody
Shirt" Let us consider for moment
why they thus become enraged at the
waving of the ensanguined garment:
Why? Because every stain upon
that old garment is record. i'll blood,
of the treason Of the Democratic
party.
Why? Because every drop of blood
upon the garment represents the lives
of a hundred good men slain in put
ting down a murderous rebellion by
Democratic traitors.
Why? Because the story of the
old garment is the story that the
Democratic party never was law
abiding or loyal party.
Why? Because the bringing out
of the old garment reminds the peo-
pie forcibly that during the time that
tried mems souls, the Democratic par
ty South was shooting and starving
brave Northern boys, while the Dem
ocratic party North sympathized with
its Southern brethren, and threat
ened to compel the Union soldiers to
walk over its dead body before they
could whip the South.
Why? Because the Bloody Shirt
tells a story of Democratic outlawry,
treason and murder, that is enough to
make angels weep, and devils howl
with delight.
Why? Because, were the inner
most and darkest recesses of the infer
nal regions to be searched for a thou
sand years and the aggregation Of
cursedness piled up, it would fade into
utter insignifcance as compared with
the Democratic record Of murder and
blood in this country.
Why? Because reference to the
Bloody Shirt recalls attempts by
Democratic traitors styled Estates
men" in Democratic circles-to infect
with smallpox and yellow fever the
innocent women and children of the
North
Why? Because the Democratic
party sees between the awful blood
clots long string Of grinning skele-
tons from Andersonville, Belle Isle,
Salisbury and Libby, starved by South
ern Democrats and gloated over by
Northern Democrats.
Why? Because in the perspective
rears up hundreds of thousands of
graves of brave Northern boys, slain
by Democratic treason
Why? Because the Democratic
party sees, behind the blood-stains,
the Sandy Leach resolutions, and the
record of Union soldiers shot down
by Northern copperheads.
Why? Because the Democrats see,
through the awful, yawning, hideous
bloody chasm represented by this
stained old emblem, desolated homes,
helpless orphans, tottering and de-
spairing old age, loves young dream
shattered, and the future painted in
the darkest and most horrible color
ing known to the ingenuity Of the
arch-fend
Why? Because the sight Of the
old rag brings back the wearing of
the butternut pin, the rattle of the
drums, the blare of the bugle, and the
hasty trip to Canada.
Why? Because the Democrats who
view the old emblem and consider that
they did nothing to keep the blood
stains from it except cry for surren-
der to the South and the destruction
of this Government, realize the enor-
nifty of having been on the wrong
side during a time which called for
the manifestation Of the loftiest pat
riotism or the most accursed treason.
Why? Because it reminds them
that the Democratic party fought
through four bloody years to destroy
the Government under which we live,
and which that party asks to be per-
mitted to run. Because, looming up
through the awful stains shines the
word Democracy" surmounted and
overshadowed by the words ''crime"
and death" When they see the old
shirt they hear the story of Demo-
cratic treason which will never be
stilled until the mental faculties of
humanity fail.
Why? Because the old emblem
tells, in letters of blood, of the sudden
alarm, tht- fire of patriotic youth, the
hasty farewell, the sad departure, the
CORY and awful field, and the missing
boy at roll-call.
Why? Because, through the CEN
ter of that old garment, opens a spot,
washed by the tears of sorrow, through |
which the guilty conscience of the
Democratic party sees the sad eyes Of
the widows, turned Heavenward in
mute appeal for mercy upon the fiend-
ish perpetrators of Democratic crimes.
Why? Because the tapping of the
old garment reminds them Of the
muffied drums in the silent valleys of
the North; the mournful signing of
the nine trees Of tho Sonth. the so1-